A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

4. A sophist and rhetorician, who flourished under M.Aurelius Antoninus, by whom he is spoken of as ἀγωνιστὴς τῶν πολιτικὼν λόγων καὶ ῥητορικῆς ὄφελος. He was at first a hearer of Lollianus and Herodes Atticus, and afterwards their rival. He taught at Athens by the express appointment of M. Antoninus, from whom also he received 10,000 drachmae as his remuneration.. His life is related by Philostratus. (Vit. Soph. 2.2, pp. 566, foll.)